Sales of new bikes are doubling or tripling, and bicycle repair shops can barely cope with the extra business, as rusty old bikes are being hauled out of sheds and garages. People are going for bike-rides, and they’re not obsessed with dressing up in day-glo lycra or pretending that they’re competing in the Tour de France. And, of course, the flatlands of East Yorkshire are perfect for people who may not have ridden a bike since their schooldays. Alone, or with family and friends, cyclists will be out in force today: yet another sunny Saturday in this strangest of summers.
Guy cycling in Withernsea. I hadn't realised, till I read an information panel, that Withernsea
once had a pier, and that this castellated gateway is all that's left of it. Almost as soon as it was completed, in 1877, disaster struck. The pier was damaged by a storm in 1880, and ships collided with it so regularly that what was left of the pier was dismantled in 1893...
Painting depicting the wreck of the coal barge 'Saffron', which had punched a 200ft hole through the middle of the pier.
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